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I read once that the cast and crew of That ’70s Show loved working with Ashton because he would do anything he was asked, no matter how goofy. I remember one scene in particular:

[W]here Kelso jumps over the couch to talk to Laurie, he was only supposed to jump onto the couch, but Ashton Kutcher’s feet slipped on the cushions and hit his shins on the table, garnering a huge laugh from the audience. This is why Laurie is holding back laughter when Kelso starts talking to her.

Apparently he never broke character until the scene ended.

Even though he’s an Obama apologist, he seems to be a hard worker; maybe with his speech he can convince a few of the 47%ers to get off their collective azzes and strive to be the same.

I remember years ago reading about Kutcher working at a cereal plant sweeping up as a teenager, and it struck me how humble a position that was for someone who became a pretty high-profile star. A good speech, particularly disposing altogether with superficiality.

And while I’m not an Apple fan, I wonder just how much Kutcher studied Jobs’ history to find that it was hard work, not luck or even brains, that created an empire.

Government produces nothing. It doesn’t build that. It doesn’t build anything. It can’t. Government is force. It can, on threat of that force, seize enough of what someone produced to give to someone else. . . . When governments start thinking in terms of “feeding the hungry” which in our day becomes “giving things to the continuously redefined poor” what it is actually doing is reducing the number of people working in the productive sector. Between the bureaucrats working to redistribute wealth and the people working to keep getting the handouts, a huge contingent of people is removed from the productive sector.

When that number reaches the point where the productive sector can’t keep up, a crash ensues. An Earth-shaking Kaboom, you might say. . . .